Meet the Team

About Us

Asian Investors Network was formed in 2020 and has grown to over 5,000+ members worldwide. Our goal is to provide investors in the Asian community opportunities to network, learn, and grow through investing.

Founder

Sam Fong

Sam Fong is the founder of Asian Investors Network and has been investing for 16 years in equities, residential and commercial real estate, and private equity. Sam is currently a senior associate at a private equity firm which manages approximately $1 billion of investor equity in commercial real estate investments.

Additionally, Sam acquires and renovates properties located in the San Francisco Bay Area and teaches personal finance and investing seminars at universities and investment groups in China, the Philippines, and the U.S. Prior to these roles, Sam was the founder of a company in the Philippines that created custom wedding dresses and suits. Sam also formed a consulting company and worked for a technology start-up in China.

Sam holds a B.S. in Management from the University of California at Merced.

Moderator

Ken Hwynn

Ken Hwynn is a seasoned technology executive with 16 years of experience in technology strategy, startups, and Fintech. Ken is currently an advisor at Newchip Accelerator and a venture partner at ARC Fund, a seed-stage investment firm.

Ken also founded a food startup that he put through the Food-X startup incubator, part of the SOSV family of incubators which includes HAX and China Accelerator. Prior to his role at ARC Fund, Ken was a research analyst with the Gartner Research Board think tank, a veteran of PwC Consulting, and an early executive of a hypergrowth cloud platform called Virtustream.

Ken earned a B.A. from Wesleyan University and an MBA in Strategy and Finance from the NYU Stern School of Business.